i haven't been writing long-form text for so long my English started feeling really clumsy again 
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りき萌 (riki moe)
@riki@furry.engineer
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i tap my paws away at the computer keyboard and the computer starts making clicky ratcheting bouncing noises atop a beautiful sunset scene with falling cherry blossoms
programmer / musician / music enjoyer
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i use this fedi account for braindumps and stuff,
due to a lack of time though, currently mostly reposting cool, funny, and cute things i find 
i hope you have fun joining me in my little retreat!
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follows are subject to vibe check (i just wanna know if you're a real person or not)
if you want your follow request processed with certainty please DM me head pats 
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please give a listen to my album!!!:
new electronic music voice stylisation effect unlocked: compressing it with a terrible mp3 encoder
just misread "watch your fingers" as "watch your yinglets"
who needs LLMs to work more quickly when you can copy-paste code from your old projects
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@tajoma@critter.cafe if you don't have studio speakers perhaps you could find an impulse response somewhere that recreates this sort of acoustic (for use with convolution reverb). i'd help capture one but i don't have speakers in the new house —w—
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@tajoma@critter.cafe there are so many variables at play, you probably won't be able to recreate the exact effect though,, but i'd say still play around with it because it's fun! worst case you'll get a totally original sound, which would be really cool too
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@tajoma@critter.cafe i did learn about this technique from c418 btw https://c418.org/albums/excursions/ so it's very likely he used it in Minecraft, too. that's where my hunch comes from! (and also years of living at my parents' house, recording gameplay while playing on speakers because it was too hot to wear headphones lol, i just happen to know how it sounds more or less)
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@tajoma@critter.cafe
part of me feels like this might not have been downsampled, but rather played on speakers in a room and then recorded back. the reverb on that piano sounds very room-like, and the EQing seems kinda complex, like there are some resonances happening in the bass that are common when playing music on large speakers that are a bit hard to capture artificially
don't forget about the tremolo on the piano, it adds a lot of character and subtle rhythm
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@tajoma@critter.cafe honestly kinda hard to tell, i'd guess both the mic and speakers are pretty decent, that's just the way they come through—but the speakers were definitely placed some space away from the mic to generate the reverb, and also i'd try EQing the mic recording a bit to accentuate the bass
theory: people on lobste.rs are so tired of reading sensationalist LinkedIn-style LLM slop they'll upvote anything that tickles their fancy and reads like it was written by a human being with a soul or two
americans will say shit like "21 miles away" and my brain will be like "guess that's 21 kilometres or something"
idk why but it always makes me so happy to see other furries online :3
i don't even need to know them personally, just seeing a fluffy icon makes me grin for no reason
maybe it's a sense of community or something, idk :neofox_think_cool_256:
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@aks@scalie.zone this is cool!
re if err != nil, i've found the same to be true for me! it's honestly not as bad as a lot of people make it out to be.
makes me wonder if a lot of the noise isn't just opinions of Rust users who have never written any Go...
the one thing i like in the language design of if err != nil is that it completely sidesteps having to design broad standard librarby types like Result with lots of little utility functions like map, map_err, ok, ok_or_else etc.
all of which turn out to form their own little DSL for handling errors,, which is an addition over the dum brain syntax of just using match and if let
whereas in Go there is only one way to do it—an if statement!
and i think that's pretty elegant :)
whether you like it or not, riki is here to stay :neofox_256:
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@DenJohn @freeplay from what i've seen, games getting minimised when you tab out is an annoyingly common feature of windowing libraries like SDL or GLFW, where often the game has to explicitly opt out of the default """sane""" behaviour
i presume it used to make sense when exclusive fullscreen mode was a thing [still is on Windows...] but it does not make any sense on Linux Wayland —w—
i actually wrote a Minecraft mod that would make GLFW stop doing this because it pissed me off hard
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@doskel@masto.doskel.net i've been running a 7900X with a noctua nh-d15 and it's honestly been fine, granted it's twice as expensive but like
air coolers can cool these things fine and require less maintenance so i've been wondering if there's any reason you'd wanna pick a water cooler other than the Cool factor
"move fast and eat shit"
i stumbled upon a 2026 LinkedIn post the other day and yeah. about what i expected
bought a bunch of paint stripper which smells like diesel and now the whole bottom floor smells like diesel
someone should develop an analogue synth called Protogen
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@doskel@masto.doskel.net hmm this thing doesn't look like complete ass, if i'm looking at the right thing
the fans are cranked up to their max speed under this kinda load, right?